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Nâzim Boudjenah, resident of the Comédie-Française, is summoned by the institution for a “preliminary interview with a view to dismissal”announced the latter on Wednesday, without citing the actor, after having learned of the “serious actions” on his part, in particular against the environmentalist MP Sandrine Rousseau. The Paris criminal court had already sentenced Nâzim Boudjenah in 2021 to six months of suspended imprisonment for death threats against his former partner, Marie Coquille-Chambel.
In June 2021, the 52-year-old actor had already been sentenced in Paris to six months’ suspended imprisonment for death threats made in 2019 and 2020 against a former girlfriend, with a two-year probationary suspension including a ban on contact the victim, and an obligation for compensation and care.
“New facts” – of the « serious actions » emanating from the“one of its employees” – were worn “to the knowledge of the Comédie-Française” during a hearing on Monday of its general administrator Eric Ruf before the National Assembly’s commission of inquiry into violence committed in the cinema and performing arts sectors, the Frenchman said in a press release.
The president of this commission Sandrine Rousseau then made public the fact that this actor had « also made death threats against [elle] ». « Which pushed me to file a complaint against him, to report him to the prosecutor, since these threats were serious”she added. These threats were made in July 2024, she said. Sandrine Rousseau indicated that the trial between her and the actor would take place « next June 6 ».
“The discovery of these new facts authorizes the Comédie-Française (…) to summon him to a preliminary interview with a view to his dismissal”adds the institution, without naming this employee. In its press release, the Comédie-Française specifies that it has “already taken measures against this employee by immediately removing him from the sets”. Elle “firmly refutes the allegations of inertia, since it has put in place all the necessary measures to prevent and protect the health and safety of its employees, which is at the heart of its daily concerns. She reaffirms her total support for victims of gender-based and sexual violence”.
Monday, when asked by Sandrine Rousseau whether Nâzim Boudjenah had been « reappointed as an employee of the Comédie-Française »Eric Ruf had confirmed. In 2021, Nâzim Boudjenah was acquitted for violence in March 2020, and the prosecution for other violence was canceled for procedural reasons.
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